BlossomBelly

Thoughtful Reminders

Try to sleep when your baby sleeps.

Accept and/or ask for help with housework and meals from your partner, family and friends.

Invite visitors only when you feel ready.

Eat healthy and drink when you feel thirsty. You’ll find you may be extra thirsty, so have a glass of water, milk or juice every time the baby nurses.

While you are breastfeeding, you may gradually lose some of the extra weight gained during pregnancy as it provides part of the energy needed to produce breast milk.

Remember that cigarette smoke is harmful, especially to babies. If you smoke, it is still important to breastfeed but look for ways to decrease your baby’s exposure to cigarette and second hand smoke.

Alcohol and other drugs can pass into your breast milk and may harm your baby. Check with your doctor, nurse, midwife, lactation consultant if in doubt about any medications or other substances you are using that might affect your breast milk.

-excerpted from Public Health Agency